[Marxism] ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jan. 14, 2011, Issue #164 HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER jac...@earthlink.net, P.O. Box 662, New Paltz, NY 12561 ALL ARTCLES AT http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ 1. A REVOLUTION OF VALUES The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. is Jan. 15. Here's a good quote to remember him with. 2. CLIMATE CHANGE: SOONER THAN THOUGHT New report says temperatures could rise by more than a devastating 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. 3. BRIC BECOMES BRICS: CHANGES ON THE GEOPOLITICAL CHESSBOARD The BRICS countries are positioning themselves to speed up the transition from unipolar world leadership by the U.S. alone to a multipolar leadership that includes several emerging countries as well as some developed industrialized powers. Washington is doing its best to retain the dominant role. 4. CHARGES DROPPED IN WHITE HOUSE PROTEST The government released remaining defendants without charges in the Dec. 16 civil resistance demonstration where 131 were arrested. 5. DELAY IN U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWAL? Maybe, in both Afghanistan and Iraq. 6. DOMESTIC SPYING NETWORK IN U.S. Washington is creating a vast network to collect information about Americans. 7. DOES FRACKING CAUSE EARTHQUAKES? Plenty of relatively small ones, says this article. 8. THE RIGHT WING AND THE GIFFORDS TRAGEDY Conservative lock and load rhetoric, and the ranting of cable TV reactionaries helped create the climate for the Tucson shootings. 9. U.S. POVERTY NUMBER MAY BE MILLIONS HIGHER Census bureau changes recent estimate of 43.6 million in poverty to 47.8 million, using improved methods. 10. DEFEND PUBLIC UNIONS AND WORKERS Conservative politicians mostly Republicans but some Democrats as well are intensifying their campaign to cut pay and benefits. 11. BUDGET CUTBACKS TARGET PUBLIC WORKERS State budgets that have been driven near bankruptcy largely by the Wall Street-led crash. Now the workers must pay for it. 12. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: MYTHS AND REALITIES This article from Labor Notes debunks five specific anti-worker claims with the real facts. 13. CANCER-CAUSING CHROMIUM IN OUR WATER Tap water from 31 of 35 U.S. cities tested contains chromium-6, a carcinogen. 14. ONE MORE DEATH IN PALESTINE It happened on New Years Day: one more Palestinian dead at the hands of the authorities, and many more will follow. But repression breeds resistance in Palestine, and the worldwide solidarity movement is growing. 15. SHARIA CHARADE Oklahoma's anti-Muslim ballot initiative approved last November is having trouble in court. 16. DOMESTIC NEWS BRIEFS 17. INTERNATIONAL NEWS BRIEFS 18. MISERY WITH PLENTY OF COMPANY New York Times columnist Bob Herbert outdoes himself in this article. We had to reprint it. 19. PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE A documentary film has just been released about Ochs, one of America's greatest topical and protest songwriter-singers. Here's a link to a good left review, and we reprint one of his songs. 20. GROUPS CAUTION U.S. ON WIKILEAKES REPRISALS A coalition of 30 free speech organizations sent an open letter to public officials cautioning against prosecuting third party publishers. ALL ARTCLES AT http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] 2 new articles
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From the Activist Newsletter, Oct. 5, 2010 jac...@earthlink.net Two New Articles at: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ What Was the One Nation Rally in Washington Really About? By Jack A. Smith, editor Harry Belafonte's Antiwar Speech at the One Nation Rally Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New Activist Newsletter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Aug. 26, 2010, Issue #161 ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER ALL ARTICLES AT http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ 1. IT'S FREEDOM OF RELIGION YOU KNOW? GOP politicians and their Tea Party warriors are intentionally fanning the flames of anti-Muslim hatred in their campaign against situating an Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero. The purpose is to gain Republican votes in November, and the American people may be falling for it. 2. BEYOND OBAMA, LIBERALISM AND THE 'PROFESSIONAL LEFT' What did White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs actually mean when he blasted the professional left? We critically examine the relationship between the Democratic Party and its frustrated liberal wing. 3. THEY GO, OR OBAMA GOES Robert Scheer says sack Summers and Geithner and bring in a new economic team that can ease the plight of the American people and reverse the economic crisis. 4. THE GUNS OF AUGUST Historian Chalmers Johnson looks to the future and observes the American Century fading away and the U.S. in decline but militarily dangerous all the same. 5. THE HURT LOCKER Why did this undistinguished war movie win the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture? 6. THE MYTH OF POST-RACIAL AMERICA America¹s real racial problems remain mostly unaddressed despite the election of an African American president. 7. REDUCING DEFICITS THROUGH A WEALTH TAX Increasing taxes on the rich will cut federal and state deficits. Here's how. 8. IRAN GAINING AS ARABS' OBAMA HOPES SINK Obama and U.S. popularity drop sharply in the Arab world and Iran may be reaping the benefits, writes Jim Lobe. 9. OBAMA DECIDEDLY MIXED ON LIBERTIES ACLU rates the Obama Administration record on civil liberties. 10. PRISON GERRYMANDERING ENDS IN NYS Inmates are no longer counted as residents of the region where the prison is located, changing some legislative districts. ALL ARTICLES AT http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Activist Newsletter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == May 28, 2010, Issue #159 HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER jac...@earthlink.net, New Paltz, NY 12561 ALL ARTICLES AT http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ 1. OBAMA EXPANDS COVERT MILITARY OPERATIONS The Pentagon is increasing its secret war activities in the Middle East and east Africa including special operations missions into Iran for subversion and possible war preparations. 2. SEIZE BRITISH PETROLEUM! The ANSWER Coalition has launched a nationwide campaign to seize BP's assets. 3. WHO SUPPORTS THE WAR? Do the American people, and particularly members of the Democratic Party, support the Afghan war? Here are the facts. 4. OPINION POLL: CAPITALISM VS. SOCIALISM A surprising number of Americans not a majority but a fairly impressive minority evidently think well of socialism and are critical of capitalism, according to a new opinion poll. 5. PEACE PROTEST AT WEST POINT As President Obama presided over graduation ceremonies at West Point May 22, demonstrators rallied at the south gate to the Military Academy calling for an end to the wars 6. U.S. MILITARY POWER AND WORLD PEACE Despite the incredible power of the U.S. Armed Forces, the White House is enlarging its global military reach, mainly to retain geopolitical superiority. 7. WORKERS, UNIONS AND THE WARS War and peace are core concerns of workers, and unions are a political force that can amplify workers' voices in opposition to war and occupation, says union activist at rally.. 8. WHY AREN'T THEY HOLDING SIGNS? We will resist this imperialism because we love our country, and because we value our humanity above our comfort, says activist at West Point rally. 9. TERRORISM: CAUSE AND EFFECT Part 1, The U.S. focuses on the wrong target. 10.TERRORISM: CAUSE AND EFFECT Part 2, Washington's major decisions provoking jihad. 11.TERRORISM: CAUSE AND EFFECT Part 3, How to end the threat of terrorism. 12.IRAN: OBAMA'S OTHER OIL SPILL President Obama has been moving mountains to undermine the Iranian nuclear fuel swap deal mediated by Brazil and Turkey. 13. IRAN: A NEW WORLD ORDER IS NEEDED The efforts of Brazil and Turkey to find a negotiated solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, must be seen in the context of a growing challenge to the international political order. 14. BAN ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Anglican Archbishop Emeritus, calls for total nuclear disarmament. 15. WHITE-BLACK WEALTH GAP WIDENS The wealth gap between white and black Americans quadrupled between 1984 and 2007. 16. THE WORLD'S CLEANEST COUNTRIES The U.S. comes in at number 63, Germany at 17, the UK at 14 but guess who is number 9. 17. BOYCOTTING THE BOYCOTTERS The Palestinian-initiated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been sharply criticized in Israel from the far right to the center right, but it does have liberal and left supporters among the Israeli people, writes Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy. 18. THE GENERALS COME CLEAN Armed Forces Day (May 15) and Memorial Day (May 31) are an appropriate occasion to reflect on past wars, and to recall that a number of leading U.S. military commanders have done some reflecting of their own, occasionally with startling results. 19. THE REAL ENEMY Lest the generals (above) have the last word, even though their words are laudable, we conclude this reflection on past wars with the antiwar poem From a German War Primer(1937) by Bertolt Brecht. 20. NEWS BRIEFS Cops Target Minorities in NYC; and Battlefield Executions in Afghanistan. 21. SAVING MOTHER EARTH Bolivian President Evo Morales explains the importance of the of the recent environmental conference in his country that drew 35,000 participants. Concerned readers dissatisfied with the nebulous results of the December Copenhagen UN meeting on climate change will learn much from this article, especially where Morales discusses the differences between the positions of the developed and the developing nations. ALL ARTICLES AT http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Activist Newsletter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == January 22, 2010, Issue #155 ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER jac...@earthlink.net ALL ARTICLES: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ CONTENTS 1. SUPREME COURT UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY 2. HEALTH CARE COMPROMISES 3. DEMOCRATS BOOSTING RIGHT-WING POPULISM Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Activist Newsletter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == December 16, 2009, Issue #153 HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER/CALENDAR jac...@earthlink.net, http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ P.O. Box 662, New Paltz, NY 12561 OBTAIN ARTICLES: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ Contents: 1. A NEW YEAR WISH We need democracy in action to bring about social change and that comes from the people, not the politicians. 2. AFGHANISTAN: IT'S NOT A JUST WAR Trying to justify his wider war, Obama misinterpreted the Theory of Just War during his Nobel Prize speech. 3. WASHINGTON'S TWO LOST WARS The United States has already lost the war in Afghanistan, just as it has lost the war in Iraq. 4. HINCHEY, HALL BACK WIDER WAR Our local liberal Congressmen enthusiastically back escalation of Afghan conflict. 5. VOICES OF WAR AND PEACE Quotes. 6. NEW MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Progressive power today resides in the people's activist and alternative movements for social/political change. 7. COMING SOON: THE THOUGHT POLICE One of the recent technological triumphs is a device that's supposed to read our minds and emotions to determine if we have harmful intentions. 8. SIXTEEN DEATHS PER DAY Every day in the United States 16 workers die on the job, largely because of reckless negligence on the part of their employers. 9. THE PALESTINIAN PLIGHT A local activist discusses Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people. 10. THE TRAGEDY OF LEONARD PELTIER One of America's best known political prisoners a Native American activist has been denied parole once again. 11. THE VOICE OF COMPLICITY A poem by Leonard Peltier. 12. OBAMA: A ONE-TERM PRESIDENT? Better a one-term president who ends a bad war than a two-term president who keeps it going. 13. FIGHTING ANOTHER DUMB WAR Chris Hedges interviews former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel, who has some interesting insights about President Obama. 14. KEEP CHURCH AND STATE SEPARATE Americans United criticizes renewed push by conservative church groups to impose religious teachings. 15. GROUPS HIT U.S. OVER LANDMINE TREATY Human rights and disarmament activists criticize Washington's refusal to ban landmines. 16. NEWS BRIEFS Hunger increases in U.S., World hunger on the rise, Obama supports revival of Patriot Act. OBTAIN ARTICLES: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER
Aug. 24, 2009 Issue #149 HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER jac...@earthlink.net ALL ARTICLES: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ CONTENTS 1. OUR NEW GROUP ORGANIZES PROTESTS We gotta blow our own horn once in a while, so we take note of the fact that our new organization, Peace and Social Progress Now!, is organizing two demonstrations Sept. 12 and Oct. 17, and we'd like you with us. 2. Editorial: HEALTHCARE IN CONSERVATIVE AMERICA The right wing disruption at Town Hall healthcare meetings stimulated several thoughts about politics in our society. 3. THE U.S. AND THE COUP IN HONDURAS The Obama Administration said it opposed the coup but has done next to nothing to back up its words with deeds. 4. INCIDENT AT A LOCAL HEALTHCARE FORUM A first-person report of a disruptive Town Hall forum on healthcare in the Hudson Valley's Orange County. 5. THE BLUE DOG DAYS OF AUGUST The Blue Dogs parade as fiscal conservatives and moderates, but it's false advertising that the mainstream press mindlessly echoes. In fact, they are the epitome of a Washington captured by moneyed interests. 6. THE REAL DEATH PANELS The best estimate of the annual death toll among Americans of working age due to lack of insurance or under-insurance is at least 20,000. 7. PRISONHOUSE AMERICA With 5% of the world population, the U.S. and state/local prison and jail population, amounts to some 25% of the world's incarcerated population. 8. U.S. MILITARY BASES GROW IN LATIN AMERICA Colombia deal is a major expansion of American military power in South America. 9. TROY DAVIS WINS COURT DECISION Sitting on death row in Georgia, Troy Davis has won a key victory against his own execution. 10. CLIMATE TALKS MOVE AT SNAIL'S PACE Global warming talks are moving so slowly that at this rate, we will not make it, said the UN¹s top climate change official. 11. CAP AND TRADE WON'T HALT GLOBAL WARMING So writes progressive Hudson Valley activist Steve Greenfield. 12. NINE ARRESTED AT END OF 3-DAY PEACE WALK They were apprehended after walking onto the central-Wisconsin military base at Ft. McCoy to protest war. 13. KEEP CHURCH AND STATE SEPARATE Liberals evidently worry less about Church-State togetherness when Democrats advance faith-based programs. 14. ANOTHER WAR CRIME CHARGED TO ISRAEL This time it involves the shooting deaths of 11 unarmed civilians (five women and four children) holding white flags. 15. THE 'PRISON' KNOWN AS GAZA There's a new UN report titled, Locked In: The Humanitarian Impact of Two Years of Blockade on the Gaza Strip. 16. THE CLASS IN THE CLASSROOM Who's kidding whom about a classless American educational system? 17. WAR BY REMOTE CONTROL Robots in the sky and on the ground are transforming warfare, and the U.S. military is rushing to recruit the new warriors that never sleep and never bleed. 18. NEWS SHORTS Mental illness in U.S juvenile detention centers; corporal punishment in American schools; attacks on homeless are called hate crimes; record number of U.S. prisoners are serving life terms. 19. AMERICA'S UNJUST SEX LAWS America¹s sex-offender laws are the strictest of any advanced democracy. Too strict, says this article. 20. THE WOODSTOCK (NY) FORUM Weekend meeting rejects U.S. propensity to foment wars around the world and to manufacture, export and sell weapons. 21. JUDEO-CHRISTIAN FOREIGN POLICY? It is historically untrue that our secular republic was founded upon a so-called Judeo-Christian (or any religious) tradition. 22. U.S. GROUPS CHALLENGE TRAVEL BAN TO CUBA Hundreds of Americans intentionally broke Washington's travel ban to Cuba this year. Right-on! ALL ARTICLES: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
